The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding

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55 points | by sohkamyung 3 days ago ago

7 comments

  • jvanderbot 8 hours ago

    Ok this part is prescient:

    "The parody language INTERCAL was revived as C-INTERCAL, where one literally pleads with the interpreter to run their cryptic code."

    • bryanrasmussen 8 hours ago

      hmm, this sounds like a job for vibe coding!

  • Duanemclemore 4 hours ago

    The FOC podcast folks released an episode on a paper (they didn't like) on esolangs just today. [0] Their episode on INTERCAL is an all-time classic.

    I'm also excited for my copy of Temkin's book to arrive!

    [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-take-esoteric-pro...

  • lrobinovitch 7 hours ago

    Also linked in the article, https://esolangs.org is worth a read if this is up your alley

    • lifthrasiir 3 hours ago

      That wiki also comes with a funny CAPTCHA:

      > Which number does this Befunge code output: 9731231181>\#+:#*9-#\_$.@

  • ashu1461 3 hours ago

    Reminds be of how people use typescript types like a hidden programming language making calculators etc.

  • untrimmed 7 hours ago

    This completely reframes coding from a tool to a medium. It's less about computation and more about... encoded philosophy?